GreenKnight121
Staff Sergeant
- 753
- Mar 16, 2014
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It appears that the box of piston return springs is missing...
They decided to p155 off.It appears that the box of piston return springs is missing...
At Fort Huachuca there are mountain lions in the hills.
In our university library, there is a door with a sign that reads:
HEAVY STAFF TRAFFIC
DO NOT BLOCK
I do not want to know how many library patrons were injured or killed by heavy staff before that sign went up.
-If it is the bird I'm thinking of it was part of the Operation Ranch Hand detachment. They were specially modified spray planes so they didn't do any of the ash & trash stuff that the rest of the C-123 "Flying Dumptrucks" did on a daily basis. One of my Ba Moui Ba drinking buds was a maintainer for Ranch Hand and he gave me a tour. The plane stunk from the defoliant they sprayed. There were so many patches on all of the planes I was amazed that nothing essential to flight had been hit. My helicopter company routinely flew over the U Minh forest during both day and night. I have to believe that our flights and Ranch Hand missions were CAREFULLY deconflicted although my guess is that our Hueys actually flew above the Ranch Hand mission altitude. Flying over the U Minh at night was surreal. There were no villages so no lights but we could smell the cooking fires so we knew that someone was down there. Even so we were rarely shot at: good fire discipline, I guess, since we flew above the "official" small arms danger altitude.That would depend on where you were sitting. In the plane, combat. On the ground holding the gun, target practice.
RE: Fort Huachuca. I enlisted in the Army right after high school and did two tours in Vietnam during 33 months of active duty. In the mid-70s after OCS I was XO of an Army Reserve unit starting up in a semi-rural area and looking for volunteers. Since I lived close to the center I did a lot of the interviewing. One young man came in and said he had been drafted in 1969, did two years but didn't do any reserve time since there were no local units. He didn't have his DD-214 (separation document) with him so I asked what he did. When he replied that he was a Ranger my BS alarm went off since it was highly unlikely that any draftee would even get selected for Ranger school let alone actually attend without reenlisting and going RA (Regular Army). I asked him when he went to Ft Benning and Ranger school and he freely admitted that he'd never been to Benning or the Ranger school. I was confused so I asked him to explain. After Basic Training he was sent to Fort Huachuca to get OJT (on the job training) as a recreation specialist but when he showed up there was a need for folks on horseback to patrol the mountains, check the campsites, watch for fires, etc. In essence they were park rangers and loosely referred to themselves as such... obviously not in the hearing of any REAL Rangers... so that's what he did for 21 months. I don't think anyone could have enlisted for that job. I don't know if recruiters even knew it existed. He said that they didn't even wear uniforms while patrolling since the issue fatigue uniforms and boots weren't ideal for horseback so the Army provided jeans and proper footgear. And he got paid for this. Oi veh.I rode with Central Arizona Trials for 18 years (motorcycle observed trials) and some of out BEST events were at Fort Huachuca. The base commander at the time was an offroad guy. Great fun, and the mountain lions never bother us. Saw a few, but they were headed the other way to get away from 100 trials motorcycles riding over the big rocks. Way fun.
Came across a few tanks and big antennas ... sorry, wire-frame constructions and arrays of hexagon-shaped things.
Had to watch the BIG, DEEP rain culverts in the main road north of the main entrance . If you hit one at anything over maybe 5 mph, you could die. If you didn't, you'd need a new vehicle.
I'm told that plane, (or maybe her replica) is on display at the Air Force museum at Wright-Pat. If so, she's probably been prettied up a little for display, as when she showed up at our airshow she looked like a tired, bedraggled working girl. No resemblance at all to a public display of Air Force pride. In any case, her history is probably on display there as well.-If it is the bird I'm thinking of it was part of the Operation Ranch Hand detachment. They were specially modified spray planes so they didn't do any of the ash & trash stuff that the rest of the C-123 "Flying Dumptrucks" did on a daily basis.
I'm told that plane, (or maybe her replica) is on display at the Air Force museum at Wright-Pat. If so, she's probably been prettied up a little for display, as when she showed up at our airshow she looked like a tired, bedraggled working girl. No resemblance at all to a public display of Air Force pride. In any case, her history is probably on display there as well.
-That fits my recollection. I believe (this was HOW MANY years ago??) that the Ranch Hand C-123s were not turbojet equipped. I think the crews got a perverse kick out of painting the patches red but suspect that some REMF decided it was bad publicity/bad for morale so they went back to natural metal finish instead of a really bad case of measles.Fairchild C-123K Provider
The Provider was a short-range assault transport used for airlifting troops and cargo to and from small, unprepared airstrips. The rugged C-123 became an essential part of U.S. Air Force airliftwww.nationalmuseum.af.mil
Here is Patches.
Indeed this was it.Are you thinking of Dogfights? Dogfights features all sorts of air combat and cool CGI graphics. It features almost no historical context
Not being snarky--at all--but welcome to the club. I'm still awaiting payment from Air Crassics from 1971 and am starting to think I may never get paid!One reason I submitted no more articles to that publication is that I looked at their suggestions for style changes and said, "Okay, I refuse to learn how to write boring."
Admittedly, even publications designed to make money can be edited by idiots. In one article I sent to Aviation History I pointed out that the first combat action by a Lockheed Lightning in the Pacific was when an F-4 photo recon aircraft got one engine shot out by a Japanese fighter and then outran the enemy aircraft anyway. The editor's comment was that since the F-4 had no guns it was not a combat action.
So I sent that article to Air Classics. They published it right away but never paid me.
See post #12.Not being snarky--at all--but welcome to the club. I'm still awaiting payment from Air Crassics from 1971 and am starting to think I may never get paid!
Well, here in New Zealand there are cougars that live in the small towns near the air force bases hoping to nab a snappy lookin' corporal in his uniform...
That reminds me of the following from years ago:Well, here in New Zealand there are cougars that live in the small towns near the air force bases hoping to nab a snappy lookin' corporal in his uniform...